Rare Meteorites, Moon Rocks & A Fragment From Mars Could Be Yours For The Right Price

Rare Meteorites, Moon Rocks & A Fragment From Mars Could Be Yours For The Right Price

Meteorites, moon rocks and even a fragment from Mars are just a few of the celestial items the public can pick up at auction this week. Christie’s auction house in New York City will present 75 of the astral rocks and other rare items from outer space in its “Deep Impact: Martian, Lunar and Other […]

Scientists Discover Black Hole So Close To Earth, It Can Be Seen With The Naked Eye

Scientists Discover Black Hole So Close To Earth, It Can Be Seen With The Naked Eye

Astronomers are celebrating after discovering a new black hole in space that is not only the closest example of the phenomenon to Earth, but is also technically visible to the naked eye. According to National Geographic, the new black hole is located in the star system HR 6819, meaning that it is only 1,011 light-years […]

Scientists Say There Might Be A Supernova On February 21, Warn Of ‘Darker’ Sky For Months

Scientists Say There Might Be A Supernova On February 21, Warn Of ‘Darker’ Sky For Months

Scientists are warning that a supergiant star close to planet Earth appears to be on the brink of explosion, according to The Tech Times. The supergiant, named Betelgeuse, has been getting dimmer and dimmer over the past few months, sparking concerns about its demise. Over the past few days, however, the star has been beginning […]

The Full ‘Hunter’s Moon’ Rises Tomorrow – And It Will Be The Smallest Full Moon Of The Year

The Full ‘Hunter’s Moon’ Rises Tomorrow – And It Will Be The Smallest Full Moon Of The Year

This weekend, skywatchers have a wonderful celestial display to look forward to. The full moon of October is nearly upon us and will grace the skies on Sunday night. Famously known as the “Hunter’s Moon,” this month’s full moon is set to offer a dazzling light show, treating stargazers to an unforgettable spectacle. The interesting […]

A Nearly Mile-Wide Asteroid With Its Own Moon Will Pass By Earth This Weekend At 48,000 MPH

A Nearly Mile-Wide Asteroid With Its Own Moon Will Pass By Earth This Weekend At 48,000 MPH

There are always those who feel as if the Earth is eventually headed for some kind of huge disaster and that there isn’t much of a long term plan for us. While that may end up being true one day, there is still so much to check out and research in the universe, chief among […]

A Bright-Green Comet Buzzed Earth This Week On Its Closest Approach In 1,300 Years

A Bright-Green Comet Buzzed Earth This Week On Its Closest Approach In 1,300 Years

A green comet darted past our planet earlier this week in what was described as its closest approach in more than a millennium. The comet was only discovered a few months ago, at the end of 2018. According to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union, our celestial visitor was first spotted on […]

Earth’s Oldest Rock Ever Discovered Has Been Found On The Moon And Dates Back Over Four Billion Years

Earth’s Oldest Rock Ever Discovered Has Been Found On The Moon And Dates Back Over Four Billion Years

Scientists believe that they have discovered the Earth’s oldest known rock, but what makes this rock truly unique, besides its age, is that it was first found on the moon decades ago in 1971 by Apollo 14 astronauts and then taken back to Earth. As National Geographic reports, this unique and ancient rock was once […]

An Exciting New Study Suggests Barnard b, A Super-Earth 30 Trillion Miles Away, May Host Alien Life

An Exciting New Study Suggests Barnard b, A Super-Earth 30 Trillion Miles Away, May Host Alien Life

A new study conducted on the Super-Earth known as Barnard b, or GJ 699, suggests that if conditions are favorable, there is a very good chance that alien life may exist here. As the Inquisitr originally reported, Barnard b, which was only recently discovered after 18 years of research — and verified as a planet […]

Scientists State That Jetlag And Personality Clashes Will Be The Biggest Difficulties In Traveling To Mars

Scientists State That Jetlag And Personality Clashes Will Be The Biggest Difficulties In Traveling To Mars

Beyond building the right spacecraft to send manned missions to Mars and the technological challenges that these crews will be facing, a group of scientific experts have stated that dealing with jetlag and personality clashes will be among the biggest difficulties that astronauts will be facing when they eventually head to Mars. According to the […]

A NASA Scientist Reveals That Aliens May Have Already Set Foot On Earth, But May Be Different Than You Think

A NASA Scientist Reveals That Aliens May Have Already Set Foot On Earth, But May Be Different Than You Think

Even though NASA has not given us any definitive and absolute proof that aliens exist, a NASA scientist believes that it is quite possible that if they do, these aliens may have already visited us here on Earth, but we just haven’t recognized them. Silvano P. Colombano, who works as a computer scientist at the […]

New Discovery, Earth Officially Has Three Moons

New Discovery, Earth Officially Has Three Moons

How many moons does Earth have? This is a question that could be found on a science test at any elementary school in the world. The right answer yesterday is now the wrong answer today. While Luna remains the only moon we can see when we look up at a clear night sky, it is […]

A New Study Has Concluded That Planets Like Mercury With A Rich Iron Core Are Probably Quite Rare

A New Study Has Concluded That Planets Like Mercury With A Rich Iron Core Are Probably Quite Rare

For a long time, the planet Mercury remained an enigma to scientists, as it is a planet that is known for its extremes, and now a new study has concluded that planets like Mercury, that are both dense and extremely iron-rich, are probably quite rare. According to Phys.org, when it comes to extremes, there aren’t […]

Pluto Just Aligned With Earth And The Sun For The First Time In 87 Years

Pluto Just Aligned With Earth And The Sun For The First Time In 87 Years

This week marked a grand occasion for Pluto enthusiasts. Astronomers and sky watchers enjoyed a very rare opportunity to take a closer look at Pluto through their telescope, as the dwarf planet crossed the plane of the solar system for the first time in nearly a century, reports Popular Mechanics. Although demoted from its planet […]

New Data Has Captured Strange Space Sounds Between Saturn And Its Moon Enceladus

New Data Has Captured Strange Space Sounds Between Saturn And Its Moon Enceladus

Astronomers have been busy dissecting data captured during Cassini’s Grand Finale mission and have come across a completely new interaction between Saturn and its moon Enceladus. According to Science Alert, by utilizing the Radio Plasma Wave Science tool (RPWS), researchers have been able to hear plasma waves traveling in between the two bodies, proving that […]

Earth Is Farthest From The Sun Today, But The Heat Wave Remains Relentless

Earth Is Farthest From The Sun Today, But The Heat Wave Remains Relentless

At 12:46pm EDT on Friday, some 94,507,803 miles yawned between the Earth and the sun. Known as Aphelion Day, today marks the largest distance between the two bodies this year, which is over 1.5 million miles farther than the average span. And yet, the heat wave hit particularly hard today, prompting record-breaking temperatures around the […]

China Unveils Neat Snapshots Of Earth Captured From The Moon’s Orbit

China Unveils Neat Snapshots Of Earth Captured From The Moon’s Orbit

The China National Space Administration has released a series of three photos taken by its Longjiang-2 mini-satellite currently in orbit around the moon, Gizmodo reports, citing the Chinese media outlet Xinhua. The images, made public on June 14, reveal the lunar surface, showing part of the Mare Imbrium, one of the largest craters in the […]

Fresh Data From NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Suggests There May Be An Abundant Amount Of Organic Matter On Ceres

Fresh Data From NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Suggests There May Be An Abundant Amount Of Organic Matter On Ceres

After sifting through large amounts of data collected from NASA’s Dawn mission, scientists have determined that the dwarf planet Ceres may have an abundant amount of organic material on its surface. As Science Daily report, the surprise announcement was made last year that organic material had been discovered on Ceres and could be found in […]

Chang’e 4: China’s Historic Mission To The Far Side Of The Moon Launches Today

Chang’e 4: China’s Historic Mission To The Far Side Of The Moon Launches Today

China is getting ready to achieve something no other nation has done before: sending a lander to the far side of the moon. Known as the Chang’e 4 mission, this historic endeavor is a two-part enterprise that debuts today, with the launch of the Queqiao relay satellite, Space.com reports. Named after a Chinese folktale evocative […]

Intriguing New Research Examines The Relationship Between Supernovae And Mass Extinctions

Intriguing New Research Examines The Relationship Between Supernovae And Mass Extinctions

A new study has examined supernovae explosions that happened 2.5 and 8 million years ago to determine if these occurrences could be linked with mass extinctions here on Earth. At the time of the supernova explosion 2.5 million years ago, our planet was just entering the Ice Age or Pleistocene era after the end of […]

Gravity Of A Super Earth Could Trap Aliens On The Surface

Gravity Of A Super Earth Could Trap Aliens On The Surface

While earthlings can escape Earth’s gravity and travel into space, hypothetical alien species living on super-earths would struggle to leave the gravity of the planets in order to achieve interstellar travel. The velocity needed to launch rockets from telluric exoplanets may make it impossible to achieve space travel, according to a Talking Democrat report. In […]

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